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A month ago, almost everyone in my family received "unknown accessory detected with you" alert on our iPhones. It was scary, and we spent hours looking for an A
by romanzubenko 5y ago
A month ago, almost everyone in my family received "unknown accessory detected with you" alert on our iPhones. It was scary, and we spent hours looking for an Airtag in every crevice of the car, and checking every bag we had. Couldn't find anything.
After extensive googling, we found numerous reports online about AirPods Pro most likely having a bug alerting their owners about "unknown accessory". If it's true, and firmware had a bug, Apple was probably in a weird position of not being able to publicly acknowledge it, to avoid potentially giving a false sense of security to folks who actually had the real alerts.
For us the alert never reoccured, and FindMy was erroring out when we clicked on "get more info about the device", so most likely it was a bug.
[edit] Reddit thread with other similar possible bug reports: https://www.reddit.com/r/iphonehelp/comments/q3n1e5/dont_own_airtag_got_unknown_accessory_detected/ https://www.reddit.com/r/iphonehelp/comments/q3n1e5/dont_own...
- jmkb 5y agoIt sounds like carrying Apple hardware may be the only decent way to detect an unwelcome Airtag. Are there any Android apps that monitor bluetooth traffic for possible stowaways?
- mrpf1ster 5y agoFrom the article: > Near the end of 2021, the company released a new Android app called Tracker Detect, which was designed to help people who own Androids discover suspicious AirTags near them
- AlexandrB 5y agoThis is as bad as (or worse than) having to stick _nomap onto your WiFi SSID to stop Google from collecting WiFi location data. A silent, passive "feature" that can violate your privacy unless you take specific, active steps to stop it. I wonder how many people are aware this even exists. I doubt Apple will be running a flashy marketing campaign for this app any time soon.